The Great One - Warren Buffet
Cheryl Grimaldi
He was never about the money.
He was always about getting it right.
About doing the kind of work that mattered.
About patience, integrity, discipline, and long-term thinking.
About doing for the world what it could not always do for itself.
As he prepared to step down on December 31, 2025, at the age of 95, it feels like the closing of an extraordinary chapter in American business. The business world will miss him in the day-to-day—his clarity, his steadiness, his moral compass.
But his influence doesn’t step down.
His principles live on in how leaders think, how businesses are built, and how success is measured beyond numbers alone. He shaped generations of entrepreneurs, investors, and operators—not by chasing more, but by insisting on better.
I simply wanted to say thank you to the man who helped shape how I think about business, leadership, and responsibility.
He will always be the greatest businessman to ever walk this great country of America.
Legacy earned.
Impact unmatched.
A Business Titan—and Cover Star
Warren Buffett’s face—always smiling, whether he’s slurping a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates—has graced the cover of Fortune more than a dozen times. And it’s no wonder: Buffett has been a towering figure in both business and investing for much of his—and Fortune’s—95 years on earth. (The magazine first hit newsstands in February 1930; Buffett was born that August.) As Geoff Colvin writes in this issue, Buffett’s investing genius
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- Cheryl Grimaldi, CPC